Gaston Michel investigates whether shocks to real estate markets constitute an important source of the risk that is … priced in the cross section of equity returns. His results document that real estate risk explains a large part of the cross … pricing story: higher asset returns must be associated with lower prices and higher risk exposure. In particular, he …

This paper re-examines the performance of REITs, stocks, and fixed-income assets based on the preferences of risk …-averse and risk-seeking investors using mean-variance and stochastic dominance approaches. Our findings indicate no first … order to maximize their expected utility, the risk-averse prefer fixed-income assets over real estate, which, in turn, is …